The Milky Way’s mass is 1,6 trillion suns, far more than previously estimated
In a novel and highly praised research, a team of astronomers have managed to estimate the mass of our host ...
Tag: dark matter
Superhot filaments of gas connect galaxy clusters
Galaxy clusters Abell 399 (lower centre) and Abell 401 (top left). The galaxy pair is located about a billion light-years ...
Survey reveals how dark energy expanded and shaped the Universe
Encompassing years worth of work, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has now precisely measured the distance between over a quarter ...
‘El Gordo’ – largest galaxy cluster ever seen, is colliding and growing
Galaxy clusters are the biggest stable structures in our Universe that we know of, typically containing 50 to 1000 galaxies. ...
Europe to lead ambitious Sun mission
Europe aims for the stars: known as the Solar Orbiter will fly towards the Sun and get closer to it ...
Supercomputer simulation confirms Universe formation model
Astronomers at UC Santa Cruz have set a new benchmark for cosmological research for decades to come maybe, after successfully simulating ...
Dark matter discovered, or at least rumor has it
Well, rumors and science never go well together, especially when it goes to something as important as the work going ...
The 8 coolest ways the Earth might be destroyed
We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...
